Need Your Ideas For Military Troop Name and Design !!!!!

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Need Your Ideas For Military Troop Name and Design !!!!!

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:12:32 AM EDT

The commander is asking the troop to come up with a mascot design and name that we can put on T-shirts etc... while we conduct combative training, fun runs, things like that but we're "A" Troop or Alpha and nothing cool starts with A.

We're Cavalry and a part of the 29th ID which has the Ying Yang (The Blue and the Gray) patch so a cool tribal 69 with maybe a claw scratch through it may be a start but what animal is tough and mean that starts with an A????? Ant Eaters? Armadillos? Anacondas? They all suck!!

The only requirements are:

Starts with an "A" and can be anything (animal vegtable, mineral)

Can be only one or two words.

Apaches
Alpha Dogs

HELP !!!!

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:15:05 AM EDT

[#1]

"but we're "A" Troop or Alpha and nothing cool starts with A."

Oh yeah?

Call yourself "Asshole troop" and every other troop will wish they could be part of it!

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:21:41 AM EDT

[#2]

one of our batteries had to change names but
ASSASSINs
starts with an A
as does Avalanche
but personally, I like Alpha Males since you are CAV

Posted: 2/3/2006 8:59:08 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
"but we're "A" Troop or Alpha and nothing cool starts with A."

Oh yeah?

Call yourself "Asshole troop" and every other troop will wish they could be part of it!

Wow, that's funny.

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:11:56 AM EDT

[#4]

I'm sick to the back teeth of American companies giving themselves flashy names like "Assassin, Apache, Bulldog, Cowboy" etc. How many Bulldog Companies are in the bloody Army?

I know I'm not alone. My platoon chose the name Danger Bunnies. We ran into Battle Penguins in Mosul.

How about having a look at mythology or history? There's got to be some uber-cool Roman or Greek or Celtic warrior or warrior tribe beginning with "A". We had a "Cuchullain" tank in our C Company, you can have a frothing Celtic guy swinging a battleaxe on your T-Shirt.

Amazon company would allow you to have a buxom, scantily clad female wielding weaponry on your T-Shirt, but it would probably fail the PC test, and I'm not sure how the men in the company would take being referred to as Amazons. I'm sure the women would love it.

Plenty of old British warships beginning with "A", they tend to pick aggressive names, at least, until they started naming the things for places.

Might want to look around for mythological creatures beginning with A as well.

NTM

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:14:27 AM EDT

[#5]

Aardvark

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:18:27 AM EDT

[#6]

I commanded an A-Company and had the same problem. First act in command was change the motto.

We went to fighting flamingos. Pink flamingos in front of the Toc and at job sites.
It was fine till our company motto, "Think Pink" was too enthusiastically given to a female Lieutenant Colonel. We had to change the motto. We were Outlaws after that.
First thing to do is to get the commander to drop the "Start with an A" requirement. Nothing cool starts with an A. Think outside the box.
Flamingo-6 had a nice ring to it.

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:22:10 AM EDT

[#7]

Call yourselves Timberwolf six.....

Max

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:22:39 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Aardvark

I like it.

The Armored Aardvarks.

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:22:42 AM EDT

[#9]

Alasaurus?

Antelopes...

Aliens

Areolas

The ARFCOMMERS!!!

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:23:37 AM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Aardvark

I like it.

The Armored Aardvarks.

Armadillo has armor too.

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:26:11 AM EDT

[#11]

alright, stop, you are killing me.
The only A name worth a fuck is "Avengers"
Stop with the aardvark and armadillo.

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:29:19 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:
alright, stop, you are killing me.
The only A name worth a fuck is "Avengers"
Stop with the aardvark and armadillo.

Oh come on. Who wouldn't be afraid of this?

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:32:59 AM EDT

[#13]

@ Danger Bunnies.

Alligators

I was in Alpha company once. We were the Gators. AlphaGators. Hah hah. Our mascot was a cartoon gator in OG107s.

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:37:36 AM EDT

[#14]

ANT EATERS

ANKLE GRABBERS

ANAL RANGERS

ANGLES OF THE 29TH

ARTSY FARTSY

ARGONAUGHTS

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:40:30 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
The ARFCOMMERS!!!

Damn! took mine!

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:44:06 AM EDT

[#16]

ASS MONKIES

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:44:14 AM EDT

[#17]

Apes

Aces

Not much else I can think of that could make for better t-shirts that start with A. Just avoid names you have to explain and ANYTHING greek (you don't want anything with potential homosexual references being used as a unit name - ever).

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:45:21 AM EDT

[#18]

Anaconda, Ares, Aztec, Aesir, Attila the Hun, Arquebus, Atom Ant, Angry Animals. . .

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:45:50 AM EDT

[#19]

Angels of Death? You could have a cool bloody sword wielding angel with no mercy on your shirt. Everyone would be absolutely mortified.

I would say Almighty Lumberjacks of Death but that one's already taken.

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:47:38 AM EDT

[#20]

Angels of Death is good, what about Avenging Angels?

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:48:09 AM EDT

[#21]

Had the same problem, eventually my former company dropped the A requirement and went with Roughnecks.

Sounds great, and all was well until we got over here (I am with B company now) and a bunch of folks on the same net who don't know what the callsign is supposed to be hear it and keep replying to Redneck-6. Of course the rest of the battalion has now joined in with it once it was heard once................

Posted: 2/3/2006 9:50:28 AM EDT

[#22]

Apocolypse
Aligators
Assassins
Arapahoe
Angry Angels
Acadians (the rock in Scorpion King was supposed to be the 'last living' acadian)

Posted: 2/3/2006 10:12:24 AM EDT

[#23]

how about just "animals". "alpha animals on the way!"

i DO like "aardvarks" though...

Posted: 2/3/2006 10:19:02 AM EDT

[#24]

I had the same issue when I was the 1SG in A Btry 5/3 FA. We elected to go outside the box and picked "Ghostriders". I was also a Ghostrider when I was in A Btry 38th FA in Korea.

Posted: 2/3/2006 10:22:07 AM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
ANT EATERS

ANKLE GRABBERS

ANAL RANGERS

ANGLES OF THE 29TH

ARTSY FARTSY

ARGONAUGHTS

Posted: 2/3/2006 10:25:39 AM EDT

[#26]

Asshats

Posted: 2/3/2006 10:30:35 AM EDT

[#27]

I agree about there being too many high speed kill'em all names out there too, but 18-20 guys like that shit. I'd prefer a smart historical meaning name too but it's hard as hell to find something appropriate.

So far I like:
Ankle Bitters
Aggressors
Aardvarks (picture of one clawing and busting thru the 29th)
Angry Beavers
Ace's has a lot of potential (picture of a playing card with Skull wearing a patrol cap or stetson) w/ M4's or sabers crossed)